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desert

[dez-ert] / ˈdɛz ərt /






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This material will be packed into a small capsule that will return to Earth in 2031, landing in the Woomera desert of South Australia.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The ephemeral piece introduced an approach she would carry into the desert, using intense color to connect the scale of the human body with the immensity of earth and sky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

When you are battling over expanses of empty desert, progress can be hard to see.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

They include the futuristic city of Neom, an enormous cube-shaped building in Riyadh, and a desert ski resort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The desert had energy and electricity in the air.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Barbabella, 56 years old, served as an emergency medicine physician in the high deserts of Afghanistan, where Navy records show he came under fire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Last year, Northwestern University identified over 212 counties out of some 3,000 in the United States as "news deserts," having no locally-based news sources such as newspapers and public radio.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The findings come as ministers have pledged to tackle so-called "dental deserts", but dentists say the current deal is not viable.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

The view changes as the ship’s pilots deftly navigate worlds — or at least try to — like the metropolis of Coruscant and the deserts of Tatooine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Trekkers visiting the Siberian tundra, the deserts of central Australia and the Amazonian rainforest believe that they have entered pristine landscapes, virtually untouched by human hands.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Aberdonians had long deserted the High Street for a shopping centre, which opened in 2009 next to the railway station.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

But this isn’t just a deserted patch of sand.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

But when he arrived, the business was deserted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

To test the concept, Srinivasan headed to a nearly deserted artificial island about 100 miles from the equator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

By eleven o’clock that morning, the school is deserted except for the Jesuit professors.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

He was arguing defiantly he would carry on, but that defiance drained away as it became clear his capacity to viably govern was deserting him.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

But a major reason for voters deserting the party in past elections was inflation, an unwelcome phenomenon for households after several decades of stable or falling prices.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

But the Syrian army collapsed with surprising ease, with many troops deserting the battlefield, in the face of the HTS rebels’ onslaught.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2024

But that’s the way it’s been as my third and final child draws ever nearer to deserting the nest, as the role of “mother” becomes less CEO and more consultant emeritus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

To leave West Virginia, even to leave Welch, would have been unthinkably disloyal, like deserting your family.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls


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